Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:19:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting up Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960602101705.3133A-100000@maryann.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606020421.VAA29156@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: [some deletions] > > > are all three on the primary scsi controller? > > > i have an ncr on the motherboard nd a second ncr pci card, > > > but i can only boot from disks connected to the first (motherboard) > > > ncr controller > > > > Yeah, just one controller, a Tyan one (obviously oem'ed from NCR). > > All three have partition tables made by dos, but only one has > > an active dos partition. Actually, that's not true, FreeBSD made the > > partition tables on the first 2 disks, dos only did the third one. > > does bteasy offer you the choice of the other two disks?? > you should see an option "F5 disk 2" or some such. > BUT looking at the code, it appears that bteasy-1.7 does not > allow you to boot from the third or higher disk ;( > rather if your BIOS reports 3 disks, bteasy-1.7 behaves as > if there is only one disk! fie! [more deletions] > > more over bteasy-1.7 relies upon BIOS int 13 to select which > drive it will read the partition (dos partitions aka slices > *not* unix partitions) table from. i dont know if the drive > parameter (register dl) can legally point to a drive other > than the first or second drive. van gilluwe does not say ;( > > so.....rearrange your drives. put dos on either the first or > second drive. exit your fstab to match the changes. if you > have dump scripts dont forget to edit them as well. OK, I'll do that. The manual for the controller states that all seven IDs are set as 80-87, but I guess bteasy won't allow that. Thanks! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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